Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art

Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains

Hannah Betts is addicted to Vestiaire Collective

Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot

Patrick Galbraith finds a little bit of Heaven in Hull

Theodore Dalrymple on the naturalness of what we eat

‘If I can get them walking the editors and staff of The Critic will be demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in six months’

The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews

Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election